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Discover LudwigThe phrase "close to missing" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It means almost or nearly missing something. Example: "I was close to missing my flight, but luckily I arrived at the airport just in time."
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The TV version, however, came close to missing the mark.
I came so close to missing it all.
Surely there must have been some test sessions or races he was close to missing?
He is now perilously close to missing out on a coveted fourth term.
Even so, DeMerit came pretty close to missing the World Cup, Stevens said.
A flight attendant noted that he had come dangerously close to missing his dream flight.
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Mostar wasn't initially on my travel plans, but as I traveled down Croatia it seemed too close to miss.
"It meant everything to her," said Robert White, a tenor who was close to Miss Tully.
The recent resignation of two PPP ministers once close to Miss Bhutto, Raza Rabbani and Sherry Rehman, hinted at this.
Sources close to Miss Gillan said the Prime Minister had stressed that the precise route had yet to be fixed.
But there is something about 14-year-old Peter Mangone's 1955 series that makes us feel closer to Miss Norma Jeane Mortenson than ever before.
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